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Censorship Prohibits Spreading Truths and Demands Spreading Lies

When U.S. President George W. Bush, on 7 September 2002, said that the IAEA had just come out with a “new report” concluding that Saddam Hussein was only six months away from having a nuclear weapon, and the IAEA three times denied it, the President’s allegation grew into, and became the basis for, America’s ‘justification’ […]

Justice Sues “True the Vote” Vigilantes

Finally. The Department of Justice has finally taken on ‘True the Vote’, the right-wing group behind the wrongful challenge of hundreds of thousands of legal Georgia voters. True the Vote challenges were the central subject of the film Vigilante, Georgia’s Vote Suppression Hitman created by the Palast Investigative Fund team. I know what you’re thinking:  […]
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Biden said privately on Nov. 4th, the JCPOA is ‘dead’.

Eric Zuesse The JCPOA is commonly called the Iran nuclear deal. Damon Maghsoudi, an expatriate Iranian Sr. Software Engineer at Google in Irvine, California, filmed Joe Biden at a California “election event” on 4 November 2022 right before the mid-term election, shaking hands with supporters, and having this conversation with one of them: President Biden, […]

Foreign affairs are of virtually no interest to American voters.

Eric Zuesse Foreign affairs, including national security, don’t show among the 14 types of issues in the recent Gallup article, “Government Remains Americans’ Top Problem in 2022”: all of the 14 issue-areas that did show were the top issue for at least 3% of Gallup’s respondents in 2022, and all of them were domestic issues, […]

The US Egged on the Coup in Peru

Update: As resistance to coup continues, Peru’s judiciary extends detention of Pedro Castillo by 18 months. The decision comes as nationwide protests demanding Castillo’s immediate release and reinstatement enter a second week. At least 21 people have been killed in the protests, which have faced repression. — TRNN The move by Pedro Castillo to dissolve […]
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The Phantom of Bombay House: Upal Chakraborty

Guest post by UPAL CHAKRABORTY [Published below is the story of a long fight against harassment and for justice by someone who took his corporate job and the interests of his company seriously, little knowing what it could lead to. It gives a glimpse into the corporate culture even among what are known to be … Continue reading The Phantom of Bombay House: Upal Chakraborty →

भारतीयता, स्वाधीनता आंदोलन और वैज्ञानिक चेतना : गौहर रज़ा

The next lecture ( 8 th one) in the ‘Sandhan Vyakhyanmala Series initiated by New Socialist Initiative ( Hindi Pradesh) will be delivered by Gauhar Raza, Former Chief Scientist, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Documentary Filmmaker on Social Issues, Civil Rights Activist and a  Poet  He will be speaking on ‘Indian Identity, Freedom Movement and …

The Stupidity of Russia’s Legislated Hetosexuality

Eric Zuesse Legislating heterosexuality is laws that impose penalties for being or publicly expressing non-coercive or “mutually consensual” sexuality of other than the heterosexual type. Such laws can affect lots of people — especially young people, and here is why we know that they hit especially the young: On 16 August 2015, Britain’s YouGov polling […]